Partial stack marketboard selling?

If I need 3 of something, I don't buy 50+ on the board. I either gather it myself, or level up whatever job is needed to make it.

The limit of 40 sales at any one time discourages selling small stacks which is why you see so few of them. (I'd rather put up 50 than waste space on 10 stacks of 5.)

Why not let sellers set a partial sales allowed flag on stack sales that lets buyers purchase as many items as they want from it? This should result in faster sales than waiting for some rich player purchasing your 99-stacks.

Why even require sellers to change anything?
Just allow us to buy x number of items from a stack that's for sale, at the price per item it's being sold for.

As long as there is preference setting for sellers to sell partial stacks I can support this.

I've wanted this ever since I started playing.

its literally a market tactic to sell things in stack sizes that you do not want. making you under or over purchase things

If I'm selling a stack of x20, that's what I want to sell. If I wanted to sell a stack of x5, I'd offer a stack of x5.
If it was a flag I can select to sell "individual items", that's fine, but people sell stacks like that for a reason.


[NOTE: I personally try to sell smaller stacks FOR this purpose, but sometimes, I gotta unload inventory sometime XD]

It's a completely different market that would lower the price on everything to the exclusive benefit of buyers over sellers.

Right now, there is a reason to price smaller stacks differently which would vanish if they implemented partial stack buys. I would not want to see that disappear.

Finally, if you only need a few items of a stack, you buy the stack and put the ones you don't need back on the market at the price you paid.

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its literally a market tactic to sell things in stack sizes that you do not want. making you under or over purchase things

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See, for me, it's the reverse. As a seller, it's a pain in the ass to have to eat up multiple sale slots just to sell off stock in quantities people actually want. I'm not trying to rip people off; I just want to get rid of my crap.

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Finally, if you only need a few items of a stack, you buy the stack and put the ones you don't need back on the market at the price you paid.

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This is also a pain in the ass.

Major crafters prefer stacks and when I sell I provide both stacks and smaller quantities. I wouldn't want my stacks being touched unless I had the option to say it's fine.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

Why even require sellers to change anything?
Just allow us to buy x number of items from a stack that's for sale, at the price per item it's being sold for.

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That's how it used to be before the 2.0
They went out of their way to change it so I would guess it was to encourage player to buy and sell in bulk.

Partial sales should be the default. Put a flag in there for those sellers that don't understand the advantage.

God would I love it if this change happened.

Part of my Market success is based on selling small stacks (5 or 10 vs. 99) for a slightly higher price. Y'know, how actual retailers do it. Despite that I'd still support such a change

If I'm selling a stack of 10 for 10k/ea and a stack of 50 for 6k/ea, I'm doing it because I don't want to sell you 10 at 6k/ea. If you only want 10, buy the more expensive stack of 10. If you want them cheaper, buy the stack of 50 and then resell it yourself.

Partials would be a different story if we had a blind market like XI.

Say SellerA could put up 10 at 10k/ea and SellerB put up 50 at 6k/ea, but all the buyers could see was "2 sellers" and a history. Then if a buyer said, "I want to buy 10 at 7k/ea", then they would get 10 of SellerB's items and SellerB would get 70k minus taxes. That sort of system would be fine.

However, our system shows you the prices that sellers are listing things for, and it would be way too easy for buyers to just buy 1 of a specific super-underpriced stack.

Not everyone, obviously (as this thread amply demonstrates), but a lot of people just put whatever amount they’ve got up at or slightly below the current cheapest price per item.

While there is definitely a market reason for selling a half stack at one price and a shorter stack at a higher price per item, most people are not looking at things that way. They just want their stack to get sold sooner rather than later, and (erroneously) think that having the lowest price is the way to do that.

I personally would love to see the ability to buy 1-X of the item being sold. That would have the lowest price being the one always being bought from, and if someone wants in bulk, they simply buy everything starting from the cheapest towards the more expensive until they have the desired quantity.

Then again, I wish they would allow retainers to buy off of the board as well, in a reverse of a sale. Retainer set to buy stuff offers a certain amount of gil for the item(s), and if people want to sell at that price, they do so.